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Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS)...

Tytus Kurek
18 February 2020


Canonical
11 February 2020

Amazon EC2 Hibernation for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS now available

Article Cloud and server

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, bringing support for this feature on par with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Hibernation allows you to pause your Amazon EC2 Instances when not required and resume them at a later time. Applications will start up exactly from...

Canonical
11 February 2020


Tim McNamara
11 February 2020

DevOps tools in 2020: Why consider Juju?

Article Charms

Many DevOps tools struggle as deployments change. Juju excels. 2020 heralds a decade for a divided technology industry. Software delivery is diversifying. Complexity is increasing. Teams are looking to make use of new approaches such as serverless and split large applications into microservices. They also need to retain...

Tim McNamara
11 February 2020


Alex Cattle
6 February 2020

Edge AI in a 5G world

Webinar AI

Deploying AI/ML solutions in latency-sensitive use cases requires a new solution architecture approach for many businesses. Fast computational units (i.e. GPUs) and low-latency connections (i.e. 5G) allow for AI/ML models to be executed outside the sensors/actuators (e.g. cameras & robotic arms). This reduces costs...

Alex Cattle
6 February 2020


cmoullec
24 January 2020

How to protect your data, applications, cryptography and OS – 100% of the time

Article Cloud and server

Businesses looking to maximise the security, reliability, efficiency and performance of their essential, mission-critical applications are recognising the mainframe as a robust platform for a variety of workload types. With Ubuntu on IBM Z and LinuxONE, enhanced security features, pervasive encryption and cryptographic...

cmoullec
24 January 2020


Katie Elston
22 January 2020

Migrating to enterprise servers with Ubuntu on IBM Z

Article Cloud and server

For mission-critical applications, security, reliability, and efficiency are essential. Linux excels in these areas, which is why it has become a highly popular platform for supporting key enterprise software. And for businesses looking to push the security and performance of their Linux-based applications even further,...

Katie Elston
22 January 2020


Chad Smith
21 January 2020

Ubuntu Server development summary – 21 January 2020

Article Cloud and server

Hello Ubuntu Server The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team

Chad Smith
21 January 2020


Galem KAYO
21 January 2020

Anbox Cloud disrupts mobile user experience

Article Cloud and server

Using Anbox Cloud, telecommunication providers can create disruptive mobile user experiences for their 4G, LTE and 5G mobile network customers.

Galem KAYO
21 January 2020


Canonical
21 January 2020

Canonical introduces Anbox Cloud – scalable Android™ in the cloud

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical today announced Anbox Cloud, a platform that containerises workloads using Android1 as a guest operating system enabling enterprises to distribute applications from the cloud. Anbox Cloud allows enterprises and service providers to deliver mobile applications at scale, more securely and independently of a...

Canonical
21 January 2020


cmoullec
14 January 2020

Kubernetes: a secure, flexible and automated edge for IoT developers

Article Cloud and server

Cloud native software such as containers and Kubernetes and IoT/edge are playing a prominent role in the digital transformation of enterprise organisations. They are particularly critical to DevOps teams that are focused on faster software releases and more efficient IT operations through collaboration and automation....

cmoullec
14 January 2020


Tim McNamara
10 January 2020

Infrastructure-as-Code mistakes and how to avoid them

Article Cloud and server

Two industry trends point to a gap in DevOps tooling chosen by many. Operations teams need more than an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, but a complete model-driven operations mentality. Learn how Canonical has addressed these concerns to create multiple world-leading products.

Tim McNamara
10 January 2020


Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Data Ops at petabyte scale

Article Cloud and server

Should you deploy Apache Spark to Kubernetes? Learn how model-driven operations have enabled one data engineering team to evaluate several options and come to an ideal solution.

Tim McNamara
8 January 2020


Tytus Kurek
2 January 2020

OpenStack vs VMware: Bringing costs down

Article Cloud and server

Moving to OpenStack from VMware can significantly reduce the TCO associated with an initial roll-out and ongoing maintenance of your cloud infrastructure. OpenStack vs VMware economic analysis shows that under certain circumstances, it is possible to bring the costs down by an entire order of magnitude. This requires...

Tytus Kurek
2 January 2020


Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
25 December 2019

MAAS 2.7, better networking features for server provisioning

Article Cloud and server

Our MAAS team has been hard at work, making life even better for those of you who provision and manage servers and data centres. This hard work has produced a new release, MAAS 2.7! This blog describes how MAAS 2.7 can detect network faults before users run into them, and test network configurations before you

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
25 December 2019